Degagism, sanction vote, republican front.
What if voting was first and foremost the power to say no?
To reject or to prevent, more than to choose.
It is one of the signs of the French democratic crisis that the first driving force behind the electoral attitude is to mobilize to "bring out the leavers" (Giscard in 1981, Sarkozy in 2012), or to unite to block an "incoming" (Jean-Marie Le Pen in the 2002 presidential election, Marine Le Pen and Marion Maréchal in the 2015 regional elections).
What will happen in the next presidential election if, in the event of a new Macron-Le Pen duel, the two symmetrical phenomena of rejection combine?
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It is one of the many interests of the half-yearly Fondapol study, carried out in partnership with
Le Figaro
and administered by Opinion Way, not to stick to voting intentions alone, but to question the French on all the parameters of their motivation to vote.
Which leads to this barometer of “electoral protest”.
It remains spectacular
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